Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-01
A FEW FACTS

Replying to paragrap which appeared
in lste number of THE GAZETTE, disput-
ing the Claim msde by the National Re-
publican, of Washington, that the Re-
publican party was responsible for the
large increase in cur national wealth be-
tween the years 1860 to 1885, the Republf-
can says:
OF course wealth is the product of labor when
the labor IS properly directed and the product
duly protected. \ man can labor as hard in
( the effort to dip The ocean dry with common
pail or to fill 1t up by shoveling sand into 1t
from its shores as he can in digging coal or
iron ore, but those who dig the coal and
ore produce wealth by their labor and the
others do not.
The Republican party, by wise laws, directed
the labor of America into channels where it
would produce wealth; 1t stopped the people
from attic npting to dip the ocean dry with a
Democratic pail or to fill it up with Demo
cratic shovel and showed them how the mine,
the factory, the workshop and the farm were
the places where labor produced wealth"
The census sJatls tics of the United States are
authority for the increase of wealth from 1850 to
1850, and the reports of states since that time so
that the statement of growth is official, as THE
GAZET z can discover by examination.
a little labor, very slight and cursory glance
into the facts, would give THE GAZETTE and
others who think like it, the ability, though
possibly not the inclination, to speak the truth
and not assert that the Republicans have given
license to "wring from labor everything short
OF surrender to actual starvation"
The Republicans began making laws for this
country In 1861. Previous to that time the
country had Democratic legislators. and the
wages of labor have doubled under Republican
laws, whilst the cost OF living has decreased
nearly one half, and as it is only what labor
produces In excess of its consumption that goes
to make wealth THE GAZETTE can probably see
that Republican lsws have added to the wealth
of the country,as stated by the National Repub-
lican.
There is no dispute about the
statistics; there is no dispute
about the increase in wealth;
there can be no dispute about the fact
that the Republican party was IN power
between 1860 and 1854. These are ques-
lions upon which all agree. There is no
dispute over the fact that wages have in
creased in the United States. These ad-
missions settle nothing. The question at
issue is simply whether or not the policy
of the Republican party has been respon-
sible in any degree for the prosperity of
the country. It is not the purpose of
THE GAZETTE to refer invidiouslY to the
acts Of certain men in the Republican
party. That party has had within its
folds number OF very bad men, who
have done many bad things. The
same can be said of any
party that ever existed, and
it argues nothing. 1t is the policy and
pretensions of party to which we
should look. The policy of the Republi-
can party-the one cardinal principles
8 protective tariff. The greatest of its
many pretensions is friendship and pro-
lection to the laboring masses. Are these
claims well founded? We can look for
an answer to this question only in those
districts where mining and manufacturing
are carried on. The most enthusiastic